• DOI:10.1177/1463499609358143
Corpus ID: 143899202

On ‘possibility’

@article{Guyer2009On,
  title={On ‘possibility’},
  author={J. Guyer},
  journal={Anthropological Theory},
  year={2009},
  volume={9},
  pages={355 - 370}
}

J. Guyer

Published 2009

Sociology

Anthropological Theory

The article originates in a response to discuss ‘How Is Anthropology Going?’. Perceiving a new pattern in the almost 90 years looking backward and forward from my own undergraduate training, I concentrate on the recurrent concept of human ‘possibility’. Its changing referents are traced over four 20-year cycles, starting with Malinowski and Benedict (1920s and 1930s), moving to Gellner’s Thought and Change (1965), Marcus and Fischer’s Anthropology as Cultural Critique (1986), Graeber’s… CONTINUE READING

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